Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents,
Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive
takes an in-depth look at the current practice of governance in
higher education and explores solutions for more effective
functioning. Written by a former college president, the book
provides an insider's perspective on the growing tensions around
the traditional shared governance model and identifies the key
challenges facing trustees, presidents, senior administrators, and
faculty.

Traditional shared governance operations are typically
time-consuming, process-laden, and slow to respond to the internal
and external forces acting upon modern educational institutions.
Higher education is facing increasing political and economic
pressure, and senior administration frequently needs the
flexibility to make institutional decisions quickly. Using recent
public scandals as examples, Governance Reconsidered
illustrates how the tension between the need for timely decisions
and action versus the importance of mission and academic quality is
creating a dramatic systemic problem. The book provides practical
advice on the issues at the heart of the matter, including:

The nature and pace of change on campus, including the
pressures facing higher education

Clarity about the roles and responsibilities of trustees, the
president, and the faculty

The campus community's role in decision-making activities

How thriving universities can govern collaboratively

The book also addresses the brand new challenges that affect
higher education governance, including MOOCs, online learning, and
rising questions about value and cost. Campus leaders must work
together effectively to boost higher education, and Governance
Reconsidered contains the questions and answers integral to
implementing effective governance.

SUSAN RESNECK PIERCE is president emerita of the
University of Puget Sound. As president of SRP Consulting, she
advises colleges and universities on planning, effective board and
presidential performance, board development, governance, and
fundraising. She is the author of On Being Presidential: A Guide
for College and University Leaders (Jossey-Bass, 2012).

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Former college president Susan Resneck Pierce draws on years of experience consulting with colleges and universities and shares her inside view of the growing tensions around the traditional shared governance model.

This book explores the topic of governance both as it is being practiced in the current educational and economic environment and how it might more effectively function. It identifies key challenges facing trustees, presidents, senior administrators and faculty and specifies their responsibilities. The book is grounded in the notion that both the external and internal pressures facing colleges and universities today demand that boards do more than just come for lunch and bask in the prestige that being a trustee brings to them. Rather, they must add genuine value to the institution and must be the president's strategic partner. In this book, Pierce addresses the following questions:

• Who should be responsible for the nature and pace of change on campuses?

• How can colleges and universities simultaneously be able to make pressing decisions in a timely fashion while giving appropriate deference to the faculty in academic matters?

• Given the critical role of the president, how should boards select and evaluate presidents, and what role should other members of the campus community, particularly the faculty, play in these activities?

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